Imagine a residence that heats itself, that provides its own h2o, hat grows its personal foods. Picture that it needs no costly technology, that it recycles its personal waste, that it has its personal power source.
And now
envision that it may be built anywhere, by anybody, from the points society throws away. Thirty years in the past, architect Michael Reynolds imagined just such a house – then set out to develop it.
Hawaii: Message in the Waves is a movie from the BBC Normal Historical past Unit searching at a few of the environmental challenges dealing with the folks and wildlife from the Hawaiian Islands.
Even though the documentary is from a Hawaiian point of view it is really a world-wide movie. Simply because of their size, location and social history, the Hawaiian Islands represent a microcosm from the planet and are in a exclusive placement to tell all of us exactly where we are going incorrect and what we can do to assist place things right.
By now everyone has observed crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet aircraft, stretching from horizon to horizon, eventually turning the sky right into a murky haze.
Our innate intelligence tells us these
are not mere vapor trails from jet engines, but no one but has probed the issues: Who is performing this and WHY. Using the release of this video clip, all of which has transformed.
The biggest domestic natural gas drilling boom in historical past has swept across the United States.
The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of normal gas” just beneath us. But is fracking secure?
When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks over a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.
With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet’s life systems.
Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans’ habitats are all addressed. The film’s premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy. The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation.
For 430 days, a crew of scientists, sailors and filmmakers live on a schooner in the Antarctic to study the impact of global warming in this gloriously cinematic adventure, full of awe, joy and life-threatening danger.
Gale-force winds threaten to dash the crew on the rocks in one of the most nail-biting scenes ever seen in a non-fiction film. Abnormally warm temperatures prevent the formation of the deep pack ice needed to stabilize the schooner and provide a birthing ground for seals.
The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered on Channel 4. According to Martin Durkin’s documentary, the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun.
Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Using a comprehensive range of evidence it’s claimed that warming over the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a ‘little ice age’.
Addicted to Plastic is a documentary focusing on the worldwide production and environmental effects of plastic. The host takes a 2-year trip around the world to give us a better understanding of the life cycle of plastic.
It’s probably fair to say that we all believe buying goods (pencils, food, electronics, etc.) with less packaging is a good thing, and when we separate our trash and drop the plastic rubbish into the blue box for the morning pickup, it all gets recycled, and we can feel confident we’ve done our part for the environment.
Hashi Omar Hassan was sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing Ilaria Alpi, an Italian journalist, in Mogadishu in 1994. His lawyer claims Hassan was convicted to stop further investigations into the motives behind Alpi’s killing. Ilaria Alpi was reporting on arms trafficking and the illegal disposal of toxic waste off the coast of Somalia; trafficking featuring Somali and Italian businessmen, offshore companies and secret service agents – trades that continue to this very day, and which are of serious concern.
Since measurements began in the 1950s, scientists have discovered that there has been a decline of sunlight reaching the Earth; they called it global dimming.
But according to a paper published in the journal Science, the dimming did not continue into the 1990s and indeed since the 1980s scientists have observed a widespread brightening. What caused the dimming to go down and what effect will it have, if any, on climate change?
